Web 1.0 was about “Paving the Caw Paths”; we took the current and well defined business processes and simply automated them with faster and faster technology. While many will argue that Business Processing Reengineering efforts are redefining the...

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Wait! I can hear ever reader out there saying that in the Web 2.0 world design and usability are not big issues. The contribution will be based on the value of the content not the look and feel. Of course, that’s why we buy a Lexus versus a dun...

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Have you ever thought about what life without metadata would be like? Not the traditional database metadata, but retail metadata - the kind of metadata that appears on every product inside Wal-Mart, Kroger and Publix. For example, consider a simpl...

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